We're almost halfway through Lent, and Catholics in St. Louis (and around the country!) are waiting anxiously for the announcement of our next Archbishop. I'm hoping the announcement will come before the end of Lent, so we can have our Archbishop installed sometime during the Easter season (the most beautiful time of year, here in St. Louis).
A Catholic rumors blog, Whispers in the Loggia, seems to be hinting that we're 'on deck' in terms of American dioceses with empty bishops' chairs... and I hope that Whispers is right!
One cool way that you can be among the first to know when the new Archbishop is announced (I've written about this before... but there's definitely room to write about it again!) is to sign up for the Archdiocese's SMS Message list; you'll get a text message within 5 minutes of Rome's announcement of the new Archbishop!